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Empire, Education, and Indigenous Childhoods - Nineteenth-Century Missionary Infant Schools in Three British Colonies (Paperback)
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Empire, Education, and Indigenous Childhoods - Nineteenth-Century Missionary Infant Schools in Three British Colonies (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
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Taking up a little-known story of education, schooling, and
missionary endeavor, Helen May, Baljit Kaur, and Larry Prochner
focus on the experiences of very young 'native' children in three
British colonies. In missionary settlements across the northern
part of the North Island of New Zealand, Upper Canada, and
British-controlled India, experimental British ventures for placing
young children of the poor in infant schools were simultaneously
transported to and adopted for all three colonies. From the 1820s
to the 1850s, this transplantation of Britain's infant schools to
its distant colonies was deemed a radical and enlightened tool that
was meant to hasten the conversion of 'heathen' peoples by
missionaries to Christianity and to European modes of civilization.
The intertwined legacies of European exploration, enlightenment
ideals, education, and empire building, the authors argue, provided
a springboard for British colonial and missionary activity across
the globe during the nineteenth century. Informed by archival
research and focused on the shared as well as unique aspects of the
infant schools' colonial experience, Empire, Education, and
Indigenous Childhoods illuminates both the pervasiveness of
missionary education and the diverse contexts in which its
attendant ideals were applied.
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